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Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Jonathan FranzenOCOs eloquent rumination in National Geographic on the damage we continue to inflict on the environment and its long-lasting consequences; William T. VollmanOCOs blackly comic reflections in HarperOCOs magazine on being the target of an extensive FBI investigation into whether he could be the Unabomber, an anthrax mailer, or a jihadi terrorist; and Ariel LevyOCOs account of extreme travel and great escape to a remote landuwhile pregnantuin the New Yorker. Other essays include Wright ThompsonOCOs bittersweet profile of Michael JordanOCOs fifty-something second act (ESPN); Jean M. TwengeOCOs revealing look at fertility myths and baby politics (The Atlantic); David KampOCOs poignant portrait of a small town recovering from one of the nationOCOs worst mass shootings (Vanity Fair); Janet ReitmanOCOs controversial study of the Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Rolling Stone); Ted ConoverOCOs eye-opening account of working undercover in a commercial slaughterhouse (HarperOCOs); and Wells TowerOCOs wild tale of bonding with his father at a notorious art and music festival (GQ). The collection also features a short story by the critically acclaimed author Zadie Smith (The New Yorker). Other contributors: Steven Brill (Time) Emily DePrang (Texas Observer) Kyle Dickman (Outside) Steve Friedman (RunnerOCOs World) J. Hoberman (Tablet Magazine) Stephen Rodrick (New York Times Magazine) Witold Rybczynski (Architect) Matthew Shaer (The Atavist)

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The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Sid Holt is chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at Rolling Stone and Adweek magazines.

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